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Joe, meanwhile, boxed on: Bob Pastor, September 20, 1939, at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, $118,400; Arturo Godoy, February 9, 1940, at Madison Square Garden, $23,620.21; Johnny Paycheck, March 29, 1940, at Madison Square Garden, $19,908; Godoy II, June 20, 1940, at Yankee Stadium, $55,989.04; Al McCoy, December 16, 1940, at Boston Garden, $17,938; Red Burman, January 31, 1941, at Madison Square Garden, $21,023.16; Gus Dorazio, February 17, 1941, at the Convention Hall, Philadelphia, $18,730.70; Abe Simon, March 21, 1941, at the Olympia Stadium, Detroit, $19,400; Tony Musto, April 8, 1941, at The Arena, St Louis, $17,468; Buddy Baer, May 23, 1941, at the Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC, $36,866; Billy Conn, June 18, 1941, at the Polo Grounds, New York, $153,905.

They called it the “Bum of the Month Club,”—which, Conn and Godoy aside, was not far from the truth. It was like a butcher's shopping list, with some cuts fresher than others. And, as the champ stood over each of his slain quarry, Joe Gould could hardly contain his happiness.